Angels ticket madness (photos)

More than 1,300 people besieged Angel Stadium on Saturday, March 3, 2012, when single-game tickets for the 2012 Angels season went on sale. Clockwise from the top left are Liam Taylor, 8, of Newport Beach; Joe Rodriguez and Rudy Falcon, both of Anaheim, at the ticket windows; Jesus Jimenez, 26, of Garden Grove; and Ed Rose, 52, of Riverside. <strong> Check out scenes from ticket madness.</strong>PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER

In the 40-degree, pre-dawn cold and darkness of mostly vacant parking lots outside the Angel Stadium grounds, the early birds waited in their cars for the sale to begin.

Angels single-game tickets went on sale on Saturday morning at 9 a.m., at the ballpark's ticket windows and through Ticketmaster outlets, online and by phone.

But it was at 7 a.m., when Angels security personnel opened the gates to the stadium lots at Orangewood Avenue and State College Boulevard that the morning's first amazing race began.

"It was like the running of the bulls," said longtime Angels fan Zane Woller, 44, of Chino Hills. "I ditched my flip flops and was running like a crazy person. Kids were passing me. Next year, I'm going to borrow someone's 12-year-old to run for me!"

It was certainly a case of survival of the fittest as the most youthful and the athletic in the early-arriving crowd of about 150 streamed toward Home Plate Gate, dodging cars and making the mad dash on foot to get the first wristbands and the most favorable spots at the front of the line.

Click on the photos to see the Angels fans who battled the crowds to land tickets.

Men, women and children were running as fast as they could on the 300-yard stretch from parking lot entrance to the plaza with the giant red hats. Many chose to buy tickets at the ballpark to avoid paying online and phone convenience surcharges and fees.

Some ticket-seekers jumped from the passenger seats in cars and sprinted. Some pushed to get around slower-moving runners. Some threw down the bikes they had pedaled to the ballpark and ran instead.

People remarked that it looked the like mobs that used to fight for the best seats on Southwest Airlines flights.

Ryan Wilk, 23, of Fullerton, a chiropractic student wearing jogging pants and running shoes, led the pack on foot but was overtaken in the end by Ed Rose, 52, of Riverside, who pedaled furiously on his mountain bike.

"I was going as fast as I could," said Rose, who was breathless when he got his neon green wristband with the lowest number. "I got my exercise for a while."

He also got a pair of tickets to the 16 games he desired.

"But I noticed they (the Angels) doubled the prices on the seats I wanted in left field on Saturdays, so I moved to right field to save some money," Rose said. "I guess they're figuring out how to pay the new guys (slugger Albert Pujols to a 10-year, $246 million deal and left-hander C.J. Wilson to a five-year, $77.5 million contract)."

By 9:45 a.m., Angels marketing manager Ryan Vance reported that 14,000 tickets had been sold online and 1,000 sold at the ballpark in the first 45 minutes. Also, the opening day contest on April 6 against Kansas City was sold out at 9:29 a.m., when Debby Taylor and her son, Liam, of Newport Beach bought the last two tickets to the game – Section 506 with an obstructive view – for $35 apiece.

"We got them but I'm not sure how much we'll see," said Debby Taylor, whose family, including husband, Trey, arrived shortly after 7 a.m. and got wristbands that made them among the first 300 in line. "We're in the building."

Overall, the first day of Angels' single-game ticket sales went smoothly. There were some minor complaints about wristband distribution and line enforcement at the stadium, where about 1,300 people come by 10 a.m.

There were also many reports from Angels fans about being unable to purchase Angels tickets online through Ticketmaster for any game other than the Sept. 22 contest against the Chicago White Sox. People having trouble online came to the ballpark around 10 a.m. to get in line.

Brisk sales for single-game tickets – a little more than 30,000 tickets were sold Saturday – matched the demand the Angels have seen for season tickets since December's signing of three-time NL MVP Albert Pujols.

"You can feel the electricity in the air for this Angels season," said Otie Davila, 52, of Corona, an Angels fan since 1966 when the team came to Anaheim. "We can't wait – except in line, that is."

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More than 1,300 people besieged Angel Stadium on Saturday, March 3, 2012, when single-game tickets for the 2012 Angels season went on sale. Clockwise from the top left are Liam Taylor, 8, of Newport Beach; Joe Rodriguez and Rudy Falcon, both of Anaheim, at the ticket windows; Jesus Jimenez, 26, of Garden Grove; and Ed Rose, 52, of Riverside. Check out scenes from ticket madness.PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Security personnel opened the Angel Stadium grounds at 7 a.m. on Saturday, allowing hundreds of fans to race by car, foot and bicycle from entrances on State College Boulevard and Orangewood Avenue to Home Plate Gate. About six security officers handed out wristbands in sequential order. By 7:15 a.m. the early birds loitered around the front of the stadium, comparing wristband numbers and noticing that the people who arrived earliest didn't get the lowest numbers. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Martin Hernandez, 25, of Anaheim, gets wristband No. 3877 on Saturday around 7:45 a.m. By then, more than 450 wristbands had been distributed with lower numbers. Hernandez says that the crowds were about double the size of last year when he bought single-game tickets on the first day of sale. "I'm a fan," he says. "I'm here for the Angels, whoever is on the team." He hopes to land tickets to the Angels games against the Dodgers, Texas, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
For crowd control, a barricaded chute is erected on the plaza in front of Angel Stadium leading to the 17 ticket windows. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Some Angels fans were said to have arrived and parked outside the gates of Angel Stadium as early as 2 a.m. on Saturday, well in advance of the 7 a.m. opening of the gates and the 9 a.m. start of the single-game ticket sales. You could understand why this fan, taking a nap in a space in the Angel Stadium parking lot, is tired. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
About 600 people arrive by 8 a.m., an hour before Angels' single-game tickets went on sale at Angel Stadium on Saturday. Though they could have purchased tickets online on by phone through Ticketmaster, many chose to battle the crowds and avoid ticket surcharges and convenience fees when buying tickets away from Angel Stadium. Some ticket-seekers avoided the single-game line entirely on Saturday and went for group sales or a mini-plan of season tickets to make sure they got the games they wanted. The Angels had tables set up beneath the left giant hat to sell group and season-seat packages beginning at 7 a.m. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Beside the Angels' group and season-seat tables is one for the Angels Booster Club, which recruited new members for the upcoming season. Kim Edwards, left, tells some Angels fans that it is the boosters who hand out the stadium giveaway items to fans as then enter the ballpark. For more information about the Angels Booster Club, visit www.angelsboosterclub.org. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Marvin Walker, 55, of Westminster, sets up his folding chair near the barricades outside Angel Stadium more than an hour before single-game tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday. He has his season schedule ready and his 2002 World Series shirt on. He has been an Angel fan for 25 years and enjoys seeing the turnout for the 2012 season. He recognizes the die-hard fans but also many new, younger ones in the crowd, which includes many people who are after the same tickets he wants: opening day, the Boston and New York Yankees series. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Roger Lord, 52, of Garden Grove, knows that about 600 people got to Angel Stadium before he did, so he's prepared for a long wait. He had two newspaper Sports section, cofee and a folding chair in the shade. A longtime Angels fan, he's heading out to Spring Training later in March. He chose to come to the ballpark to buy tickets rather than order online or by phone to avoid paying service fees. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Around 7:45 a.m., Liam Taylor, 8, of Newport Beach, takes a seat on a concrete baseball outside Angel Stadium as his parents, Debby and Trey, wonder whether they should remain waiting in line on go home and try to get tickets online through Ticketmaster. They arrived at Angel Stadium at 7:15 a.m., 15 minutes after the gates opened but discovered there were about 100 who would be in front of them in line. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Debby and Trey Taylor of Newport Beach study the Angels 2012 schedule to come up with a purchase strategy. The family of Angels fans just moved down to Orange County from Northern California and want to get tickets to opening day, first and foremost. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGSTER
Many families like the Taylors -- Debby, Trey and son, Liam, 8 -- of Newport Beach made getting Angels single-game tickets on Saturday like a treasure hunt. Liam's favorite player in right fielder Torii Hunter. Liam is also a pitcher and first baseman on his Little League team. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
A food truck parked in the Angel Stadium lot at 7 a.m. capitalizes on baseball fans with an appetite for breakfast as well as tickets before the windows open for sale on Saturday. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
After the mad rush for wristbands when the Angel Stadium gates first opened at 7 a.m., a more manageable single-file line formed as people arrived to buy Angels single-game tickets on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
The Angels staffers who are in Spring Training in Tempe, Ariz., are out in full force for Saturday's first day of single-game ticket sales. Representatives from the sales and marketing department, security personnel and ushers are very visible. I counted more than 25 team officials roaming around the plaza outside of the ticket windows. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Some Angels fans arrived to areas just outside Angel Stadium as early as 2:30 a.m., when it was about 40 degrees outside. It was 55 degrees at 730 and 65 by 8 a.m., with the rise in temperature prompting those in for the long morning to grab what little shade they could find. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fans and friends pack up their folding chairs as the line begins to form around 8:30 a.m. for single-game tickets on Saturday. This is an adventure for Alizabeth Awrey (left, 28, of Anaheim, and her mother, Becky Pfeifer (center), 50, of Costa Mesa, who got to Angel Stadium on Saturday, three hours before tickets went on sale. When the parking lot gates opened at 7 a.m., Pfeifer says about 40 people races toward the tickets window. Many ran, with the younger, faster ticket-seekers reaching the ushers bearing wristbands first. Awrey jumped from her mother's car and got wristband No. 3355 -- 36th place in line. Her mother parked and got wristband No. 3395. Their friend, Beth Cole (right), 45, of Fountain Valley got to the ballpark at 8 a.m. and had No. 3918. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Becky Pfeifer, 50, of Costa Mesa, shows off her wristband, which bears No. 3395. The Angels security personnel started handing out wristbands in sequential order on Saturday at 7 a.m. beginning with the No. 3319. "I ran so fast and all these kids were passing me when I got here," says Pfeifer, showing off her running shoes. "Next year, I'm going to ride in on a Razor." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Zane Woller, 44, of Chino Hills, and Alicia Desmond, 41, of Garden Grove, became fast friends after going through the eventful Saturday morning at Angel Stadium. Woller arrived at 4 a.m., well before 7 a.m. when the gates to the Angel Stadium parking lot opened. Both Woller and Desmond sprinted to be among the very first in line and land one of the lowest numbered wristbands. "It was the running of the bulls," says Woller, who shed his flip flops and ran barefoot through the parking lot to get No. 3363, which was the 44th spot in line. Because six Angels security staff or ushers were handing out wristbands through the crowd of about 100, some sprinters like Desmond ended up getting wristbands with higher numbers than ticket-seekers who reached the window a minute later. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
While waiting for the line to form, Shaun Hill, 23, (left) a San Francisco Giants fan from Garden Grove, challenges his friend to name the starting lineup from the 1986 Angels team. Hill is poking fun at his friends who haven't followed the team seriously before the arrival of Albert Pujols. Hearing the challenge, longtime Angels fan Zane Woller (right) rattles off the entire 1986 starting lineup, much to the amazement of Hill and his friend, Rudy Falcon (center). PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
These buddies camped out in a parking lot on Orangewood Avenue and made the sprint toward the ticket window for wristbands when the Angel Stadium gates opened at 7 a.m. From left to right are Andrew Bacon, 24, of Garden Grove; Jesus Jimensez, 26, of Garden Grove; Brent Borbon, 25, of Anaheim; Shaun Hill, 23, of Garden Grove; and Rudy Falcon, 28, of Anaheim. "We're all excited for a fun season," says Falcon. "We can't wait for it to start." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Around 8:30 a.m., just 30 minutes before Angels single-game tickets official go on sale at Angel Stadium ticket windows, the crowd thickens around the chute where ushers and security personnel are permitting the 30 people with the lowest numbered wristbands to get in line. People gather and push to get closer to hear which range of numbers are being called. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fan Otie Davila, 52, of Corona, has been a fan of the Angels since they began playing in Anaheim in 1966. Davila got to Angel Stadium on Saturdat before the parking lot gates opened at 7 a.m. for the 9 a.m. ticket sale and says that people were lining up near the gates as though it were a track and field event. People sprinted. Some rode their bikes then dumped them to make way on foot. "It was crazy," says Davila, who a baseball coach who work cleats for this mad dash. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Around 8:40 a.m., the 30 people with the lowest numbers made the procession through the chute leading across the Angel Stadium plaza to the ticket windows. The first 17 people were allowed to stand at one of the 17 windows at 8:50. Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fans rib Joe Rodriguez, 25, of Anaheim, for being in front of them in line for tickets on Saturday. He arrived just before 7 a.m. and got his hands on a lower numbered wristband, getting to reach the ticket window before Andrew Bacon, left, and Jesus Jimenez, right, who both camped outside the stadium grounds since 2:30 a.m. "It's because I'm faster than you," gloats Rodriguez, who sprinted in his Pujols jersey to get one of the first wristbands. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
The first 17 people in line got to take their positions outside the Angel Stadium ticket windows at 8:50 a.m. and were able to give their first orders to the ticket agents beginning at 8:55 a.m. At 9 a.m., when sales officially begun, the agents transmitted the requests for tickets. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Ticket-seekers in the original group of about 150 people who were parked around Angel Stadium when the parking lot opened at 7 a.m. on Saturday pointed to Ryan Wilk, 23, of Fullerton, as one of the fastest runners who sprinted the 300-yard stretch from the Orangewood Avenue entrance gates to the plaza in front of Home Plate Gate for one of the first three wristbands distributed. Wilk, who is athletic and in chiropractor school, says he arrived near the ballpark at 4:15 a.m. "I passed a couple people making the run but got overtaken by a guy on a bike," he says. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels single-game tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. on Saturday. At the moment the clock his 9 a.m., all 17 Angel Stadium ticket windows had customers and a line of nearly 1,300 fans waited behind them. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Stephanie Salazar, 20, of Los Angeles, is the first Angels fan to complete her order. She disappointed, having arrived at 3 a.m. Saturday and waited more than six hours to buy single-game tickets, settling for seats that she didn't want. She spent $130 and got got tickets for opening day, the New York Yankees and the Boston series. But the tickets were in right field, instead of her desired left. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Stephanie Salazar, 19, and Marlon Palacios, 20, of Los Angeles, show off their tickets. These Angels fans both first in line at one of the 17 Angel Stadium ticket windows when the sale of single-game tickets began at 9 a.m. Saturday. They parked nearby the stadium at 3 a.m., raced to get a wristband when the ballpark opened at 7 a.m. and were at the ticket window the second the sale began. "You think you'd do all that and get what you want, but that wasn't the case," says a disappointed Salazar, who sought tickets in a primary location for opening day and had to settle for lower-level seats in right field. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Ryan Wilk, 23, of Fullerton, who sprinted from the Angel Stadium parking lot entrance at 7 a.m. and outraced most of the pack to land one of the lowest numbered wristbands. He was at a ticket window at 8:55 a.m., placed his first order at 9 a.m. and left the window around 9:10 a.m. "I'm quite pleased with what I bought," says Wilk, who purchased nearly a dozen tickets, including five to opening day. He plans on keeping two opening day tickets and re-selling the other three. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Among the first fans to arrive, get a wristband and get service at the Angel Stadium ticket window on Saturday is Ed Rose, 52, of Riverside. He celebrates his purchase of 16 tickets to eight games at the end of a long morning when he rose his mountain bike to the ballpark and pedaled as fast as he could to get to get one of the first wristbands handed out when the parking lot opened at 7 a.m. on Saturday. Though he landed the tickets to the games he wanted, he says that he was disappointed to learn that ticket prices in his desired left field on Saturdays had been raised from $16 to $32 each. "I moved to right field to save some money," he said. "I guess they're figuring out how to pay the new guys (slugger Albert Pujols to a 10-year, $246 million deal and left-hander C.J. Wilson to a five-year, $77.5 million contract.)" PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Ernest Acosta, 65, of Chino Hills, leaves Angel Stadium on Saturday after purchasing tickets for opening day on April 6, when the Angels play host to Kansas City, and for July 7, when some friends will be in town. Acosta and his son, Joe Rodriguez, who spent much longer making his purchases, are among the first in line at their respective ticket windows that morning. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
By 9:15 a.m., more than 1,000 people have descended upon Angel Stadium to buy single-game tickets on Saturday morning. The first hundred people fill the chute leading up to the ticket windows while hundreds more wait in cars and mill around the parking lot, many on their cell phones trying to purchase tickets online or talk to friends trying to purchase tickets online or by phone. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Rudy Falcon, 28, of Anaheim, fans out his newly purchased Angels tickets to show his friends on Saturday morning. He spent $500 for five tickets to opening days, two for the New York Yankees series and four for the Boston series. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fans Otie Davila, 52, of Corona, celebrates with Travis Jimenez, 19, of Riverside, at the end of a long morning waiting to buy single-game tickets on Saturday. Around 5 a.m., Davila and Jimenez were parked outside Angel Stadium, waiting for gates to open to the parking lot. "They (Jimenez and his fiancee Jessica Simmons) were watching "South Park" on their phone in their car," Davila recalls, "and I was behind them, watching them watch TV." And around 9:15 a.m., they both had their Angels tickets. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
"We got to the stadium around 5 a.m. and they (Angels security) chased us out," recalls Jessica Simmons, 19, of Riverside, who arrived early with fiance Travis Jimenez, to get Angels tickets on Saturday. "It has been a long morning to get these tickets but it's worth it because we're Angels fans." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
From left to right, Pat Duarte, Anthony Marmolejo and Otie Davila -- all longtime Angels fans from Corona -- are relieved after getting their Angels tickets shortly after the tickets windows opened at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Angel Stadium. While waiting, they shared stories about the last time they all saw a large crowd at Angel Stadium to buy tickets. "It was for the World Series tickets in 2002," Davila recalls. "This is a large crowd today for (Albert) Pujols and (C.J.) Wilson but nothing like what was out here for the World Series or to come out for the parade at Disneyland." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fan Zane Woller, 44, of Chino Hills, recognizes that buying Angels single-game tickets is far from a perfect system. He showed up at Angel Stadium at 4:30 a.m. to be among the first arrivals when the ballpark opened at 7 a.m., rather than take his chances by buying tickets online and getting slapped with Ticketmaster surcharges. At the ballpark, he experienced the crazy rush of fans to get the first wristbands. He noticed how some of the earliest arrivals didn't received the lowest numbered wristbands because Angels ushers weren't distributing the bands in sequential order. Also, he says, no Angels staffer was enforcing the lining up in wristband-number order in the chute leading to the ticket windows. "The time you get to the window matters because they are so few tickets to the games everybody wants," he says. "Being one spot behind could make the difference." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Otie Davila, 52, of Riverside, arrived at Angel Stadium on Saturday hoping to buy tickets in left field for several popular series games. He found most of those tickets already sold out and had to settle for seats in right field. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
By 9:30 a.m., Debby and Liam Taylor of Newport Beach leave the ticket window at Angel Stadium. They were among the first 300 customers to reach the ticket window and just barely got what they wanted -- tickets to the April 6 opening day game against Kansas City. "We got the last two tickets to opening day, Section 506, obstructed view, $35 each," says Debby. "Now it's time to go home and go to sleep." PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Sam Maida, the Angels director of ballpark operations, watches as sales manager Tom DeTemple updates the dry-erase board at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday morning with the latest message on ticket availability. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
At 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, many in the crowd of more than 1,000 groan as the Angels staff informs them that opening day, April 6, has been sold out. Ticket windows, Ticketmaster online and phone sales began at 9 a.m. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Veronica Rosas, 27, and her father, Frank Rosas, both of Fullerton, still manage smiles despite being frustrated with the wait and an apparent lack of enforcement of numerical wristband order in the chute of 50 to 100 fans lined up to go to the ticket windows. They didn't have to battle crowds to buy tickets in previous years. But they're still excited about the start of 2012 for the Angels. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Angels fans are showing off their wristbands and getting in line to buy tickets at 9:50 a.m. Saturday, 50 minutes after single-game tickets went on sale. By 9:45 a.m, April 6 opening day was sold out, more than 1,000 tickets had been sold at Angel Stadium and 14,000 sold online. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
The excitement about the arrival of three-time NL MVP Albert Pujols to the Angels is obvious with the double-than-last-year turnout for the first day of single-game ticket sales on Saturday. There was also a healthy representation of fans wearing new Angels Pujols jerseys. An hour after tickets went on sale at the ballpark, more than 1,200 wristbands had been distributed and the wait time was estimated to be more than two hours. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Lily Ochoa, 23, and Jesse Valencia, 24, both of Santa Ana, arrive at Angel Stadium shortly before 10 a.m., an hour after ticket windows had opened on the first day of single-game ticket sales. They know that more than 1,200 people will get to the window before they do, so they're both checking Ticketmaster and StubHub to try to order tickets online while they wait. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER
Alvin Simon, the Angels CSC security director, fastens wristbands for just-arriving Angels fans around 10 a.m. on Saturday morning. Simon tells them the wait is a couple hours and that opening day has already been sold out. Overall, the crazy morning was a peaceful one. PHOTO AND TEXT BY MARCIA C. SMITH, THE REGISTER

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